Emily Brough

Support my challenge to care for young Western Australians

Every school day across Western Australia, 250,000 students walk into a school where someone knows their name. In 2025, YouthCARE chaplains and volunteers showed up in 600 school communities and 38 sporting clubs across the state, from the Kimberley to the Great Southern.

They sat with students navigating hard things, served nearly 700,000 meals through Breakfast Club, delivered 30,760 wellbeing sessions, and supported more than 10,000 athletes and their families on the sidelines.

260,000 people. One consistent presence. Ridiculously good care.

Your support helps provide ridiculously good care to young Western Australians.

Help me support YouthCARE today - Fitness Challenge

Last year, 494 chaplains and 1,318 volunteers supported 600 schools and 38 sporting clubs across WA. That's an accumulated impact of 260,000+ people supported by YouthCare!

This May, I will be taking on a ridiculously good fitness challenge to support YouthCare volunteers and chaplains to continue the ridiculously good work they do across the WA community.

Across the month of May, I will be doing 494 push ups to represent the 494 chaplains and 1,318 squats to represent the 1,318 volunteers that supported the WA community in 2025.

Working at YouthCARE, I know first hand what our chaplains and volunteers do every day. We show up, quietly and consistently, for people who are carrying a lot... Anxiety, loneliness, pressure, uncertainty.
Most of the time you'd never know, because people are pretty good at just keeping on....

But having someone there who notices, who listens, who doesn't disappear when things get hard? That changes things. It gives people a sense that they're not on their own. That they matter.

That's what YouthCARE calls Ridiculously Good care, and it's why I want to help more young people access it.